Industry Insights

Announced in March 2020, the EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy underlines the importance of recycling and resource-saving.

Top entrepreneurs comment on the pandemic's impact on their business.

Six association chairmen comment on recycling management, the European Green Deal and the role of IFAT.

Environmental industry calls for recycling more waste, using more recycled raw materials and strengthening the polluter-pays principle.

Many environmental technologies on show at IFAT directly or indirectly contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. What impact do the goals have around the globe?

What contribution can a circular economy make to solving pressing environmental challenges?

Private and public waste management companies roughly share the German waste collection market, which is mainly structured regionally. Exemplary projects across Germany point the way to a resource-efficient future.

Contamination by nitrates and other residues create challenges for water treatment. Examples that prove the opposite—where water scarcity is successfully combated.

The standard of industrial wastewater technology is high, however, the technology is used too seldom. Read more about it here!

Better now than later: support programs and research projects provide a boost for the digitalization of the circular economy.

The importance of thermal waste treatment as a building block of the future German energy industry is controversial.

Brine as liquid deicer is considered environmentally friendly and cost saving. Liability issues continue to be of great importance